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Chúng ta không thể giải quyết các vấn đề bất ổn của mình với cùng những suy nghĩ giống như khi ta đã tạo ra chúng. (We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.)Albert Einstein
Hãy làm một người biết chăm sóc tốt hạt giống yêu thương trong tâm hồn mình, và những hoa trái của lòng yêu thương sẽ mang lại cho bạn vô vàn niềm vui và hạnh phúc.Tủ sách Rộng Mở Tâm Hồn
Không nên nhìn lỗi người, người làm hay không làm.Nên nhìn tự chính mình, có làm hay không làm.Kinh Pháp cú (Kệ số 50)
Cơ hội thành công thực sự nằm ở con người chứ không ở công việc. (The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job. )Zig Ziglar
Cách tốt nhất để tìm thấy chính mình là quên mình để phụng sự người khác. (The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. )Mahatma Gandhi
Lời nói được thận trọng, tâm tư khéo hộ phòng, thân chớ làm điều ác, hãy giữ ba nghiệp tịnh, chứng đạo thánh nhân dạyKinh Pháp Cú (Kệ số 281)
Bạn có biết là những người thành đạt hơn bạn vẫn đang cố gắng nhiều hơn cả bạn?Sưu tầm
Nếu muốn đi nhanh, hãy đi một mình. Nếu muốn đi xa, hãy đi cùng người khác. (If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.)Ngạn ngữ Châu Phi
Những khách hàng khó tính nhất là người dạy cho bạn nhiều điều nhất. (Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.)Bill Gates
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The story of Anne Shirley, the redhaired orphan, has been popular around the world for
almost a century. The opening chapters of Anne of Green Gables tell how a brother and
sister, living together on a farm, have decided to adopt a boy. Matthew Cuthbert is now
60 years old and needs help working the farm. They have sent away to the orphanage,
and the boy will be arriving by train.
When Matthew goes to the train station with his horse and buggy, there is no boy, only a
girl Ann Shirley. Anne is no ordinary girl. She has a vivid imagination and loves to talk
about things that interest her. Matthew, who is shy and quiet, takes an immediate liking
to her. When they arrive home, however, his sister Marilla is very upset. She doesn't see
what good a girl would be to them. Matthew says, We might be some good to her.
After a while, Marilla begins to feel sorry for the thin little orphan and decides to keep her.
But Marilla finds that teaching Anne how to behave properly is quite a challenge. Anne
often does things without thinking first, and Marilla has to be vigilant to keep her out of
trouble. As time goes by, Anne becomes accepted in the community and doesn't get into
as many difficulties.
One characteristic of the little orphan is a love of big words. While she lived a life of hard
work, Anne liked to imagine beautiful things that she didn't have. This was her way of
dealing with unhappiness when she worked as a servant for unkind people. Living at
Green Gables makes her happy, but she doesn't lose her love of special words or
beautiful things.
Anne is also unhappy because she has red hair and freckles. In Anne's day, beautiful
women were thought to have light clear complexions and black hair. Her colouring
seemed unromantic. However, red hair and freckles are very common on Prince Edward
Island, where many of the people are of Scottish descent.
This story tells us a lot about how to be happy. When Matthew and Marilla stop worry
about needing a boy, and start taking care of Anne, they find that they enjoy having her
around. Their lives become much more interesting now that they have someone who
needs them. So happiness involves looking after others, and being needed by them.
There were many stories about orphans when Anne of Green Gables was written.
Before modern medicine, many parents died before their children were grown up. A lot of
mothers died in childbirth. Since fathers didn't usually try to raise young children in
those days, someone else had to take the responsibility.
This is what happened to Lucy Maud Montgomery, the author of Anne. Her mother died
when she was a baby, and her father left her with her mother's parents. Montgomery's
grandparents provided a good home for her, but they were very strict and stern and
didn't have a lot of sympathy with the little girl.
In her story, Montgomery is imagining how she would have liked her own life to have
happened. What if her grandparents had been more like Matthew and Marilla? What if
they had allowed her to do more of the things she wanted to do? Wouldn't she have been
happier then?
The story shows how young children are hurt by bad treatment from the adults looking
after them. Even if the adults don't mean to be unkind, sometimes they say or do things
that make children very unhappy. Anne teaches parents and grandparents to
encourage their children and help them to be happy and successful.
Anne Shirley is one little person who changes a whole community and makes it better.
We all have special gifts and talents, and if we are allowed to use those abilities, they will
benefit everyone around us.
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